Egypt
National Geographic (Dan Morrison)
- Rock Art At Qurta - Inora 51 2008
International Newsletter on Rock Art (in PDF Format) Thanks very much to Dr Dirk Huyge for letting me know that an article about his work at Qurta is available on the above website, free of charge. The article is accompanied by a map of the site's...
- Photo Gallery: Intact Colossus Of Egypt's Queen Tiye Found
National Geographic This intact statue of Queen Tiye, a powerful queen from ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty, was recently discovered at the site of the mortuary temple of powerful pharaoh Amenhotep III, as seen in this photograph taken March 27, 2008....
- More Re Lascaux Type Images On The Nile
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/849/he1.htm Nevine El-Aref takes up the story of the Qurta images recently publicized in a press release, and now described in the June 2007 issue of Antiquity. There is nothing very new in this article, but as usual Nevine...
- 15,000 Year Old Palaeolithic Rock Art At Qurta
15/05/06 Press ReleaseUnfortunately there is no URL for an online home for the following press release, which was sent to me by email: Belgian Arcaheological Mission Traces Oldest Art in Egypt: 15,000 year old Palaeolithic rock art sites at Qurta are...
- More Re The Gospel Of Judas
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/790/fr2.htmNevine El-Aref describes the Gospel, its discovery and the background to its return to Egypt: "The gospel of Jesus's favourite disciple, Judas, was on show yesterday in Washington's National Geographic...
Egypt
Qurta rock art
National Geographic (Dan Morrison)
This story is actually several weeks old, but since as National Geographic have now picked up on it, here it is again, with a photograph.
The team found several additional panels of artwork over a 1-mile-long (1.66 kilometer-long) stretch of 230-foot-tall (70-meter-tall) sandstone cliffs.
There is "little doubt" the engravings are 15,000-years-old, Huyge said. They depict a now extinct species of wild cow whose horns have been recovered from Paleolithic settlements nearby.
The drawings would be examined for lichens and organic grime called "varnish rind" that could be carbon dated or subjected to another process known as uranium series dating, Huyge added. Because the rocks are inorganic, they cannot be dated directly using these methods.
For the older articles, see the recent publication on the Antiquity website, and Nevine El Aref's excellent summary on Al Ahram Weekly
- Rock Art At Qurta - Inora 51 2008
International Newsletter on Rock Art (in PDF Format) Thanks very much to Dr Dirk Huyge for letting me know that an article about his work at Qurta is available on the above website, free of charge. The article is accompanied by a map of the site's...
- Photo Gallery: Intact Colossus Of Egypt's Queen Tiye Found
National Geographic This intact statue of Queen Tiye, a powerful queen from ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty, was recently discovered at the site of the mortuary temple of powerful pharaoh Amenhotep III, as seen in this photograph taken March 27, 2008....
- More Re Lascaux Type Images On The Nile
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/849/he1.htm Nevine El-Aref takes up the story of the Qurta images recently publicized in a press release, and now described in the June 2007 issue of Antiquity. There is nothing very new in this article, but as usual Nevine...
- 15,000 Year Old Palaeolithic Rock Art At Qurta
15/05/06 Press ReleaseUnfortunately there is no URL for an online home for the following press release, which was sent to me by email: Belgian Arcaheological Mission Traces Oldest Art in Egypt: 15,000 year old Palaeolithic rock art sites at Qurta are...
- More Re The Gospel Of Judas
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/790/fr2.htmNevine El-Aref describes the Gospel, its discovery and the background to its return to Egypt: "The gospel of Jesus's favourite disciple, Judas, was on show yesterday in Washington's National Geographic...